From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Feb 15 21:40:53 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA05130 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Mon, 15 Feb 1999 21:40:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freeway.dcfinc.com (cx74889-a.phnx3.az.home.com [24.1.193.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA05124 for ; Mon, 15 Feb 1999 21:40:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chad@freeway.dcfinc.com) Received: (from chad@localhost) by freeway.dcfinc.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA14787; Mon, 15 Feb 1999 22:40:41 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from chad) From: "Chad R. Larson" Message-Id: <199902160540.WAA14787@freeway.dcfinc.com> Subject: Re: 3c905B-TX FastEtherlink XL In-Reply-To: <36C59DC3.43459D5A@singnet.com.sg> from Chamara Somaratne at "Feb 13, 99 11:44:03 pm" To: chamaras@singnet.com.sg (Chamara Somaratne) Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 22:40:41 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-to: chad@DCFinc.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As I recall, Chamara Somaratne wrote: > I am at the moment running 2.2.6-stable. Was thinking about upgrading > to a later release. Can somebody provide some advise as to whether I > should go with 3.0.0(Nov 98) or 2.2.8 (Dec 98) or 3.1 (March 99 - btw > is this in the stable branch?) My $0.02. I'm running 2.2-STABLE (started with 2.2.8-RELEASE, cvsup sources every so often). +--------------- | FreeBSD freeway.dcfinc.com 2.2.8-STABLE FreeBSD 2.2.8-STABLE #1: +--------------- Just based on all the traffic on these lists, I plan to let version 3 bake a bit longer before it makes it onto my system. > Here's my concern. I have this 3c905B-TX FastEtherlink XL card which > is at the moment not supported by 2.2.6, My concern is which of the > newer releases provide better operation with this NIC. Works fine. Here's from a "dmesg" command... +--------------- | xl0 <3Com 3c905 Fast Etherlink XL 10/100BaseTX> rev 0 int a irq 11 on pci0:16:0 | xl0: Ethernet address: 00:60:97:de:2b:a8 | xl0: autoneg complete, link status good (full-duplex, 10Mbps) +--------------- -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org chad@anasazi.com larson1@home.net DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message